[asterisk-dev] Using FFmpeg

[Olle E. Johansson]

23 jul 2010 kl. 16.38 skrev Philippe Sultan:

> Hi Olle,
> 
>> From what I've read, the FFMPEG libs can be GPL or LGPL, depending on
> how you configure the FFMPEG installation.
> 
> If you choose to install FFMPEG libs than are subject to the GPL, then
> you have to explicitly add the --enable-gpl option to the configure
> script, otherwise the configuration process fails.
> 
> In FFMPEG 0.6, libswcale (we use it in FFPlayback) became LGPL. We use
> it along with both libavcodec and libavformat (the basic FFMPEG
> libraries).
> 
> And here is the FFMPEG configure command that's needed to run
> FFPlayback and chan_rtmp :
> configure --enable-shared --enable-swscale --disable-mmx
> --disable-optimizations --enable-debug

...if that works (I can't judge) then we still have issues with patents for handling various video formats.
What's the current status for the codecs we handle pass through today?

/O